First published 2021
Rip and Rapella Ripple pull their Chartreuse Caboose into Albuquerque to celebrate granddaughter Tiffany's thirtieth birthday. The celebration ends when investment manager Trey Monroe turns up dead at the airport clutching a one-way ticket to the Cayman Islands. The money Tiffany and her husband Chase invested through Trey has vanished. Chase faces double trouble when Tiffany discovers he secretly gambled their entire savings on a risky stock offering. Now Chase sits in jail as the prime murder suspect while his marriage crumbles. Rapella refuses to let her granddaughter's world collapse. She teams up with Trey's assistant, another victim of his financial schemes, to hunt for answers. The investigation puts Rapella, Rip, and Tiffany directly in a killer's sights. Rapella must prove Chase's innocence, solve Trey's murder, and recover the stolen money before the body count rises.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, investigative-journalism
Setting: Albuquerque, Cayman Islands
Period: contemporary
284 pages · Paperback · Epublishing Works!
Content warnings: murder